SALT LAKE CITY — As if Wednesday’s loss to Phoenix wasn’t discouraging enough, Utah will open the playoffs on an even lower note after Andrei Kirilenko suffered another setback trying to return from his injured left calf.

Kirilenko likely will miss the entire series against the Nuggets after straining his calf for a third time in the last month while playing a two-on-two game Thursday.

“He was devastated, but that’s part of this business,” Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said Friday. “You just try to encourage him to try to keep his spirits up because there’s not anything we can do about it.”

Whether the Jazz will have Carlos Boozer for today’s Game 1 also remains to be seen. Boozer (strained oblique) did not practice Friday and was not available to the media.

“We have to plan on him being there from the conversations we’ve had with him and with (trainer) Gary (Briggs),” Sloan said. “But in the event he’s not, we’re still going to play.”

The Jazz said Kirilenko would miss at least two weeks while exploring treatment options, but Kirilenko told one teammate he expected to be out three weeks. Kirilenko first injured his calf in the March 12 loss at Milwaukee. He missed 15 of the last 17 games; the Jazz are 10-5 in those games.

Kirilenko, who also wasn’t available to reporters Friday, had taken a conservative approach and sat out the Jazz’s final nine games. He nearly returned Wednesday and said then he was “pretty confident” about playing in Game 1.

C.J. Miles, who will continue to replace Kirilenko in the starting lineup, summed up the mood: “You can see guys kind of upset about it.”

Pressure’s off.

Now that Kyle Korver has set the NBA’s single- season 3-point shooting percentage record, he can look forward to playing the Nuggets with decidedly less pressure than the final games of the regular season.

“It feels like a weight’s gone off my shoulders a little bit,” Korver said. “I’m just going to go out there and play my normal game, though. The record, I took good shots, I took the open ones all year.”

Korver went 59-for-110 from 3-point range (53.6 percent) to break Steve Kerr’s record of 52.4 percent set with Chicago in 1994-95.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tyreek Hill didn’t know what to do when he started hearing thousands of people in Arrowhead Stadium chanting his name, even as he stood all alone on the frozen turf waiting for the punt.